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I'm not sure you're asking the right question. You shouldn't need to integrate Spring and Tomcat directly. Tomcat is merely the servlet container in which you deploy your app, be it a Spring app or not.

If you're trying to create a web app with Spring, the Spring DispatcherServlet will pass requests off to handlers and controllers in the Spring container, so you wouldn't need to instantiate an application context yourself.